Open AccessNote on the origin and history of the term “apoptosis”
Author(s) -
DuqueParra Jorge Eduardo
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
the anatomical record part b: the new anatomist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1552-4914
pISSN - 1552-4906
DOI - 10.1002/ar.b.20047
Subject(s) - term (time) , metamorphosis , perspective (graphical) , apoptosis , cognitive science , programmed cell death , neuroscience , environmental ethics , biology , history , ecology , computer science , psychology , philosophy , artificial intelligence , genetics , physics , quantum mechanics , larva
This brief essay offers a perspective concerning the etymon of the term “apoptosis,” a term that is currently and widely recognized as a synonym for programmed cell death. The origin of the term from the Greek and a historical perspective of how the concept of cell death was viewed in the 1950s to the 1970s are discussed. Studies in such diverse systems as cork oak bark, embryonic neuronal development, hepatology, and insect metamorphosis ultimately described processes similar to what we now call apoptosis. Anat Rec (Part B: New Anat) 283B:2–4, 2005. © 2005 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.